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The limits of eloquence
Benoît Bréville
&
Serge Halimi
, October 2016
At the Democratic convention in Philadelphia this July, Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton as his political heir. The significance of choosing his former secretary of state as candidate for the first female president of (...)
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At the centre, but on the margins
S. H.
, October 2016
Can an outsider like Donald Trump beat a candidate with the experience and backing of Hillary Clinton? (...)
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Icelandic revival
Philippe Descamps
, October 2016
Restaging history
Veronica Horwell
, October 2016
How an amateur historian and a soprano with shapely legs helped create the British taste for period drama.
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Dismantling the ‘Jungle’, brick by brick
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Peter Blodau, Sharif Fanselow
&
Elle Kurancid
, 11 October 2016
“The Jungle exists because of politics and money,” shrugs Sami, a 27-year-old refugee from Kabul. “I think everyone here knows that.” Slumped in a chair outside one of (...)
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Iceland
, from bankruptcy to chill revival;
China
, should France be worried?
Turkey
, anatomy of a near coup;
Algeria
, what language to learn in?
Israel
, security as religion;
Golan Druze
victims of regional conflicts;
Kashmir
, art as resistance;
street art
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Resistance as art
Raphaël Godechot
, October 2016
In the 1990s, the young joined armed rebel groups in Jammu and Kashmir; now they have created their own culture — part local, part international — to express their national identity.
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China’s stake in France
Martine Bulard
, October 2016
The US is the biggest destination for China’s direct overseas investment, but Europe is now becoming a priority. In France, where China accounts for only 2% of FDI, are concerns justified?
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Strategic plateau
Cécile Marin, 2 October 2016
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Throwing in the towel
Open Page
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Sandy Tolan
• FROM
TomDispatch, 18 October 2016
Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. You won’t find any acknowledgement of this in the official record. Formally, (...)
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The language of learning
Akram Belkaïd
, October 2016
Classical Arabic succeeded French as the language of teaching after independence. Now a failing system is turning to what the young actually speak, colloquial Algerian Arabic.
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Outside in
Dismantling the ‘Jungle’, brick by brick
P. B.
,
S. F.
&
E. K.
, 11 October 2016
“The Jungle exists because of politics and money,” shrugs Sami, a 27-year-old refugee from Kabul. “I think everyone here knows that.” Slumped in a chair outside one of the camp’s (...)
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After the fighting
Jens Malling
, 29 September 2016
The war in Ukraine has caused huge devastation in Sloviansk. Some people were lucky enough to have their homes rebuilt, others were not. There is widespread resentment against the (...)
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Refugee summits: too little, too late?
Talha Jalal
, 17 September 2016
On September 20th, on the margins of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, President Obama will host a Leader’s Summit on Refugees, perhaps the last symbolic overture of the (...)
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A last challenge to Brexit
John Pedler
, 6 September 2016
What is extraordinary about the result of the 23 June UK referendum on continued membership of the European Union (Brexit) is the unquestioning acceptance — not only by people in (...)
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Strategic plateau
Cécile Marin, October 2016
Growth forecast for Japanese robot market
, 6 September 2016
Rivalries in the Horn of Africa
Agnès Stienne, September 2016
The Baltic’s crowded waters
, 6 September 2016
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Throwing in the towel
S. T.
• FROM
TomDispatch, 18 October 2016
Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. You won’t find any acknowledgement of this in the (...)
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Learning to claim our victories
Rebecca Gordon
• FROM
TomDispatch, 16 October 2016
In these dismal days of climate change, imperial decline, endless war, and in my city, a hapless football team, I seem to be experiencing a strange and unaccustomed emotion: hope. (...)
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Trump the arsonist
John Feffer
• FROM
TomDispatch, 13 October 2016
The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border to steal jobs and rape women. The (...)
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American power at the crossroads
Dilip Hiro
• FROM
Tom Dispatch, 11 October 2016
In the strangest election year in recent American history — one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he “admired” while (...)
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After the fighting
Jens Malling, 29 September 2016
Beach life in Crimea
Jens Malling, 5 February 2016
Behind the headlines: Colombia’s Nasa people
Robin Oisín Llewellyn, 7 December 2015
The socialist city
Jens Malling, 11 August 2015
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Forest farewell to the FARC
Loïc Ramirez
, 27 July 2016
Unit by unit, the FARC is standing down across Colombia as a ceasefire with the government becomes a formal peace agreement. But its guerrillas are unprepared for civilian life. (...)
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Vorkuta, a coal monotown
Ph. D.
, 27 July 2016
On 25 and 26 February 2016 a series of underground explosions killed 31 miners and five rescue workers in the Severnaya pit, 10km from Vorkuta, the Russian coal-mining town inside (...)
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The language of learning
A. B.
, 4 October 2016
Classical Arabic succeeded French as the language of teaching after independence. Now a failing system is turning to what the young actually speak, colloquial Algerian Arabic. (...)
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Venezuela begins to lose patience
L. R.
, 4 July 2016
Following the Chávez years, Venezuela is heading for 700% annual inflation and has food shortages and intractable corruption. What happened to the revolution? Members of the local (...)
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